[ Elda smiles, at once genuinely happy for Lusamine and hideously jealous as... as...

... She needs to admit it, at least to herself.

As a widow.

She's not used to this particular jealousy, so it's not quite bitter yet. So instead she just answers easily as she brushes her hair ]

Hmmmm, well to suit a lady like yourself, he'd have to be a particularly classy guy, a real gentleman! But if he's a professor, he's probably also a bit academic... glasses, even? Humans get bad enough eyesight they need glasses when they read a lot, right?